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Unwanted Viral Browser Toolbars
Hi hoping for some advice about this
My PC is infected by the following:
Snap.do - Babylon Search Toolbar, Claro Search Toolbar. There are 14 total instances of this garbage and I have no idea how they came to be on the computer. I am very conscious of dangerous sites and "passengers" within downloads, I scrutinise everything for the usual check boxes and never check or uncheck anything that might piggy-back in. I have AVG 2012 I.S. and MSE, neither of which have managed to find any of this, never mind kill it.
I have searched the Registry with <Find> and killed these Toolbars in IE and my main browser, FF. However, they return to the Registry after closing it, Restarting and opening <Regedit> again. (Boy, these things are tough!) They do not appear in my browsers now, but Snap.do will show up and take over if I use the Google Search Bar. I have noticed a gradual slow down of my system: not too bad, but timing over a week has shown a slowdown of Boot, by 8 seconds over the 7 days.
As I was typing this, AVG Scheduled Scan pop-up reported no problems, giving 'Zero's' for all, including Spyware. I used Malware Bytes 2 days ago, but have just seen Brink's information about Updates to that, thanks Brink I will try that after logging out, although the sheer persistence of these nasties does not give me confidence.
Thanks to all who post.
Last edited by Bertison; 05 Feb 2013 at 06:43. Reason: Grammar!